Quotes About Psychology

The onset of mania occurs when repression is no longer able to resist the assaults of the repressed instincts.

I have a lot of repression. So repression is what I make movies about.

Repression is fantastic.

I think I'm becoming a psychologist in explaining the Republican Party. It's the only way you can explain 'em. It's psychological.

What is it like to get in someone's head and hunt them from inside their eyes? That's so freaky to me.

It's like why people read scary books or go see scary movies. Because it creates a distance. They're scared, but they're not going to get hurt.

Hypnosis is just suggestibility; you see it in certain people.

I robbed them, and I killed them as cold as ice, and I would do it again, and I know I would kill another person because I've hated humans for a long time.

If Bill was all id, Hillary is all superego.

It goes without saying that all mental illnesses are neurologically instantiated. But this says nothing about their causation.

I think fiction, for me, is a way of trying to understand why people do the things they do - and trying to explain what is, at heart, illogical.

I have my dark side. You have your dark side. From the second that we have a brain, there are things that are not right - we are human beings with all these illusions and complexes and everything. That's attractive to me.

I am not sure our brains and our psychologies are ready for immortality.

I think to try to understand human behavior and why people do what they do, and what in their lives have shaped them and impacted them to be who they are, it's something. I mean, that's my entire life.

Sledging is an important part of the game, but you should never cross the line.

I'm always impressed by how fighters can compartmentalize their lives before big fights.

I don't think of sex as a self-destructive impulse.

We humans actually need help controlling our impulses - nudges.

Dark impulses certainly exist in me and, I think, in most people.

You need to talk like your boss and copy their actions. Like, if they cross their legs, you do the same. If people think you're like them, you're more inclined to get what you want out of them.

Comedians period, in general, have demons, and myself included.

It's incredibly fun to play someone that you don't like. It exorcises your own demons in a way. It's cathartic. We all have things that we don't like about ourselves, little things. And I get to amplify those things and put them out there. It's fun and it has a cleansing effect.

Imaginary evils are incurable.

At the beginning of a project, we need to disrupt the psychology-driven dash to a premature conclusion by disentangling means and ends and thinking carefully about what exactly we want to accomplish. Frank Gehry's question, "Why are you doing this project?," does that.